Word: discards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easiest, most direct way for people to make a difference is to watch what they throw away. Every year more than 220 million trees are cut down just to make U.S. newspapers, the majority of which are tossed into the trash. Americans discard enough aluminum cans each year to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet four times over. Quite obviously, says Earth Day 1990 chairman Denis Hayes, "the answer to the solid-waste problem is not figuring out some way to compact it or to incinerate it; the answer is to reduce...
Faced with a shortage of couples for the growing numbers of special-needs children, adoption officials have been forced to discard orthodox notions of what constitutes a family. Two years ago a White House task force recommended that states eliminate barriers to adoption by singles like Mazzafro, working couples, older people and the physically handicapped. "We've had situations where married veterans have been encouraged to adopt special-needs children, but when they show up in a wheelchair, they are shown the door," says Mary Sheila Gall, who headed the group. "We had to change the system...
...Europe outgrows its postwar political arrangements, the Soviet Union experiments with captialism, and Japan becomes a major international actor, a Harvard education remains constricted to a few city blocks in Cambridge. What a shame. The time has come for Harvard to discard its Cambridge-o-centric academic arrogance and let its students create a more international experience for themselves...
...that have governed the country in the past 60 years begin to unravel, where you have a situation like the one you had in Venezuela last February ((riots broke out in response to austerity measures)). I don't think this is likely. But it's not something you can discard entirely. There is a limit to how much people can take. That limit is being approached now, too quickly. I know for a fact, and I think every Mexican knows, that an explosion in Mexico would make the Caracas riots look like child's play...
...parties have too much invested in the agreement to discard it lightly. In hopes of cooling off the violence, Pretoria called for a meeting over the weekend of the commission set up to monitor the progress of the border peace agreement...